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hayfield.

Noun
Setting
MEANING

A field where grass or other plants are grown and cut to make hay.

Use it for

rows of cut grass drying in a field; a rural field awaiting harvest for animal feed; open farmland with a sweet cut-grass smell

Words that belong together

  • newly cut hayfield
  • cross a hayfield

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Swallows skimmed the hayfield while the cut grass dried.
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hayfield

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Singular hayfield; plural hayfields. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.

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